Tamsin Parnell

@tamsinparnell.bsky.social

PDRA at Exeter. Honorary Associate Prof. in Linguistics and Health Communication at Nottingham. I work on language and society, including politics, media, and mental health.

New publication: My contribution in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics on "Corpus Linguistics and Journalism" has just been published. It is not OA but feel free to DM me if you'd like to read it

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I have a new institutional email address based at Exeter. It'll be available on my staff profile shortly, but for now, to contact me please email: t.parnell [at] exeter [.] ac [.] uk. My Nottingham email account remains.

Pleased to have had an abstract accepted for the online conference ‘Discourses of Crisis: Language, Communication and Culture in Times of Polycrisis’. My talk is titled ‘A critical discourse analytical approach to polycrisis’.

Short-form book proposal goes to the board in the next week. Fingers crossed. This would be my first go at writing up thoughts on Starmer’s Labour after my CADS presentation. It would also foreground my thoughts on working on timely political questions, which I didn’t get chance to talk about.

10 years since the EU referendum. Here is a list of works I’ve written on Brexit. 1. Constructing Brexit Britain A CADS book-length study on how the pro-Brexit press, Conservative government and citizens constructed national identity in times of Brexit. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/construct...

Constructing Brexit Britain

Combining corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, and a discourse analysis of narratives, this book considers one aspect of the Brexit process: the lan…

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Had to leave CADS earlier than anticipated to get back to my little girl in the heat. But I had a marvellous time and will be watching the hashtag from afar to catch glimpses of the talks and plenaries I was looking forward to.

#CADS2026 Interesting point about academics not being the only ones to determine what constitutes "research:... Definitely relevant to my current interest in AI therapy apps which do their own research on their products and frame it as evidence of efficacy...